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RLD OVER. at th« Wsak's lm- Gon< elMiy Smmnarisod, AftaOlfenot by Electrio Win tnm Iwy Quarter of tha Clftt- itftd World. A TERRIBLE DEATH. Alleged ludern of Jtuntc Boihau ^ Slowly Strangled to Death. i| - WILLIAM PATTERSON was hanged in tin yard of the Jefferson County Jail, at "H^ariHe, Kv, He is a colored man and (convicted with another colored man, Tomer, for the murder of Miss jade Bowman, on April 23, 1887. Miss pni Bowman was a domestic employed by a 'iiirily who lived in a fashionable suburb, and the crime was committed v about 10 te'clock in the morning. The family Were all 'absent from the house at the time, and no witnessed the murder. Turner and Patterson were arrested on suspicion, and ...burner immediately confessed. Turner pleaded guilty, but on 'the scaffold said J^afcterpon was innocent. He was hanged J^ly 1, 1887. Patterson was tried and TOnvictod. hut appealed his case, and the lower court was sustained. The Gover­ nor respited him three times, but refused $o Interfere further. Patterson protested bis innocence on the scaffold. He was Strangled slowly to death, and four min- after the drop fell, said: "Curse and then. "Lord, save me." Bis jles were fiightful. m THE CROP PROSPECT. IhTOcable Keporti Received the Past Week by the Leading Mercantile Agencies. BKADBTREET'S in its summary of last Week says: Special dispatches note that while the extreme heat of last week has tended to check trade at Philadelphia, Cleveland, and a few smaller cities, the general situation remains good, and in •one instances is improved, notably •A Omaha, Kansas City, and St. Joseph. Boston has received favorable advices ttOm the interior, which is having a good A significant feature is found in telegrams from Lonisville, New Orleans, St. Louis, Davenport, and Burlington, Iowa, Kansas City, Omaha, and St. Joseph, and the late warm weather, fol­ lowed by rains, has greatly improved the «top prospects, including wheat, Indian eont, sugar, and rice. In the region trib­ utary to Kansas City and in California wheat harvesting has begun. ©AVE HIM "ROUGH. ON RATS." fte Unttady End of a Man that Married His Mother-in-law. MBS. GBOBGE R. JOHNSTON, late of Wsea, Montgomery County, Iowa, is fa jail at Baltimore, charged with poisoning her husband. Johnston : married his mother-in-law. He was a laborer and his wife took In washing. Two weeks ago he sickened and suddenly died. An examination that he died from a dose of on rats," alleged to have been given him by his wife. Johnston was her third hatband and she his second wife. It^s said that her other husbands, who died in Kansas, came to their death un­ der circumstances that poxzled the physi- QUICK POSTAL SERVICE. UHui. ftw Into Delivered at Vancou­ ver, R. C., Within Twelve Days. THEPostofBce Department has received advices that mail matter posted in Lon- AM May was distributed in Vancouver, miles distant, twelve days later. 1 route was via the Canadian Pacific lway. From an authoritative source it is learned that the directors of the Canadian Pacific recently decided to con- atatfU a new line from Hope to Ducks, in ~ B, two stations 120 miles apart, ; the distance to the coast about w ; When a fast fleet is put oh ike Atlantic it is hoped to reduce the time between London and Vancouver to ten and m half days. Been ITsll Tfi* following table sh<*w« the relative Standing of the clubs composing the four principal associations in their race for the ^:^jiia>|iioiiiihip honors: Western. WooXost. DeaMoine* 92 13 fit. Paul SB 14 Milwaukee 80 18 Kansas City 90 16 Omaha 18 9 Chicago 17 lb Minneapolis 18 36 St. Louis 14 ft Interstate. Won.liost Peoria 9B 8 Davenport .38 8 Dubuque 17 IB Crawfordaville.. 17 If Bloomington... .IS 17 SSlDanville 13 21 aalRocltford 13 U 35|L«layette 0 4 ladeitd ud Sobbed at Roekaway Beach. Tan body of a man supposed to be John T. Bowe, of New York, was found half imbedded in the sand On Bockaway Beach in front of Johnson's pavilion. 'SIMM were three knife wounds in the abdomen. The man had been stopping at Johnson's pavilion. A handsome gold watch and ehain which he wore when he appeared it Bockaway are missing, as is also his money, of which he was known to havea large amount. The man was 51 yean of age and apparently an English- Woo. Lost. waa the Twasnraf of titt (War of Harien- wedar, e*b«fel*d litoit $ft,000 of the ud tiMnritooadeft.' When arretted he attempted to take poison, but was thwarted by the vigilance of the Dep­ uty Marshal. TKB arrest of Philip Huber, the Adams Express agent at Sunbury, Pa., for steal-. \ng from the company $29,000 in transit from Philadelphia to Bhamokin in 1886 relieves fiom suspicion an innocent suf terer. A clerk in the Philadelphia office Of the express company named Fratt was toasted for the crime and put in jail w default of $30,000 bail. A detective* (ought to extort a confession from him,, but without success. Pratt claimed he was an innocent man.* THE Henry-Barnard Bronze Compayn if New York, has completed two bronze Statues to be placed one on each side of the soldiers and sailors' monument of Binghamton. The models for the statues were taken from life, one representing a young sailor and the other a soldier. They ire the first statues cast in one piece and 8ost $ 10,000. B. W. WARD, of Belvidere, N. J., civil sngineer, had a desperate fight with two large rattlesnakes while surveying lands. The fight lasted half an hour, and Mr. Ward was almost overcome by the pecul­ iar odor of the snakes before he succeeded in killing them. WEST. A WHOXA family living in Elisaville, Ind., were poisoned by drinking lemonade in which a child had put pans green. All but one child will recover. GEN. GRANT'S farm, mortgaged several fears ago to William H. Vanderbilt in or­ der to raise money to extricate the firm of Grant A Ward from the result of Ward's rascality, has been 6old by Chauncey M. Depew to Luther H. Conn, a St. Louis real-estate agent. The farm comprises 744 acres > and lies just twelve miles west of the St. Louis Court House, on the Gravois road. The con­ sideration was about $70,000, and this transaction causes the historic Dent home­ stead tract to change hands for the first, time in more than half a century. Capt. Luther H. Conn, the purchaser, is a Ken- tuckian, and has a Confederate record as one of the bravest and most daring men in Morgan's command. Since the war he has been in the real estate business, and recently became a double millionaire through successful mining ventures, and now he has purchased this well-adapted Dent homestead to indulge his faucy, and proposes to establish a stock-farm. He has already christened his n£wly. ac­ quired relic "Grantwood," so that it can never lose its identity as the home of the silent commander. GOVERNOR MOREHOUSE, Of Missouri, has respited Landgtaff, who murdered his sweetheart and waa to have been hanged the 22d, until July IS, the date of the hanging of Maxwell, who killed Preller. Maxwell is much disheartened, and thinks the action of the Governor indicatesjiis intention to refuse to interfere in his vase. The Governor says that he did not think of Maxwell in firing upon the ISth, and that he has not decided ^j|f IflftliW* -t** take in the Maxwell case. FOREIGN. ? TH* funeral of the late Emperor Fred* erick, took place at Potsdam the 18th. A Berlin telegram says: At V o'clock tbe Dell* tolled and the mtnUten who officiated at tbe Emperor"* faawal took coffin in tl their plaeea around the c 1 the palace, Tbe A Doll Day in Congress. : Th* Senate waa not in e««ion the 3M. lathe Howe a lively debate resulted over the sundry •Ml bill, which -waa finally completed, The jjpBSB paraed the naval appropriation bill. IMrty-geveii private pension bills were paased ® the evening session. There was more inter- est taken in the bulletins from the Republican national Convention than in legislation. BA8T. ~ 't PAWie* <*bmw, a young He* Yoih , was arraigned before Judge Cow- af New York, for the murder of an- «ner plumber, John Crowley, oh tne night ^|««v.f0. They had quarreled after a game j*.***"*» and On the street Crowlev threw Wt" at Omen, kicked and beat him, and an iron-clad ash can at him. Green, in return, stabbed Crowley in Jfc» arm and Crowley bled to death. The jury acquitted Green after being out *fO minutes. The trial occupied two hours which is Said to be the shortest time on •seord for a trial for murder in the first degree. AT the scale conference of iron manu­ facturers and the Amalgamated Associa­ tion off ion and Steel Workers, held in Pittslnag, Pa., the iatter submitted a proposition to suspend operations for wMaa'months, instead of accepting a re­ daction of wage*. Manufacturers agreed to accept the proposition, provided it ap­ plied to all mills in the country. U. 8. DEPUTY MABSHAX. BKBNHARD taaagbt before U. S. Commissioner Ly- in.Xew York, Jnlins Vogel, who is fcS with embezzling money belonging 1 Municipal Government of Manen- jProsna. He awe remanded for -jading the arrival Af the offi- na Washington* T©gel,wbe choir sang the hymns'Soon Thoa Calleat Me to Higher Joys," and "Jesus Is My Tru»t." Chap­ lain Koegel blessed the eorpse and tbe mount- era, after which the choir aang the hymn "If I Am to Die." The commanders of twelve regi­ ments, of which the late Emperor was the chief officer, carried the coffin to the hearse. Eight Majors then took the hones by the bridle, and the inoessslcn started far the church. All the way from the castle to the Friedenakiraehe, where the funeral waa to take place, torches and cressets were seen, illuminat­ ing with their pallid flames tbe morning light, Every hen and were arose hogs flagstaff* and pole* bearing banners with mooning devices. The troop* comprised the entire garrison at Potsdam and a portion of the Berlin and Span- dan garrisons, imposing ceremonies were had at the castle and then the procession moved to the church. There was no sermon. After the firing of volley* and minute gun* by the troop* the mourners took their departure. Before leav­ ing. the widowed Empress bent over the coffin and took a solemn farewell look at her husband's (See. Services were also had at many places throngouttbe country, also at Wta*Ungtou. EMPEROR WIULIAM has issued, A proc­ lamation to the Prussian people. In it he says: I have taken the government, looking to the King of all kings, and pray God tike my father to be a just and lenient prince; to foster peace and to promote the welfare of the land; to be a helper of the poor and distressed; to be a firm guardian of the right, and progress in my kingly duties, in unison with the people, who in good and S evil days have stood true to their kings. 1 oonnt upon the people'* fidelity, and, conscious of my purpose, reciprocate it heartily a* a true prince to a true people, both equally ready to make sac^fiees for the fatherland ! ;A DISPATCH received in London, the 20th, from St. Paul de Loanda, says: Several deaerters from Stanley's expedition have reached Camp Yambunga. They state that after traversing Yainbunga Stanley struck into a rough, mountainous country covered with dense forests. The natives, who were excited by re­ ports spread by the Arabs, disputed the passage of the expedition, and there was continuous fight­ ing. Stanley waa severely wounded by an arrow. He was compelled several times to construct camps in order to repel attacks, and was obliged to use tbe reserve provisions that were intended for Emin Bey. The Soudanese attached to the force had all died or disappeared. Tbe deserters intimate that the caravan lost one-third of its force, and they say that many of those remaining were ill, including the Europeans. StanJey was encamped when the deserters left. He wae sur­ rounded by hoa tiles and was unable to send news to Emin or directly to Yambunga. Relief parties have been sent to him. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO Ctfffif Choice to Prime Mesvs.a 6.00 p.oo 8.00 5.25 8.00 Good. Cows and Heifers Has*--Shipping Grades SHEEP Wnut-No. S Bed Co an--No. ....................... Oars--No. 1.... BARI.IT--No. 2 Bui<rnn--Choice Creamery. Fine Dairy CBEBSK--Full Cream, flat Eons--Fresh POTATOES--New, per brl Po»*-- Mess MILWAUKEE. W SKAT--Cash COBM--No. 3 Oats--No. 2 White Brl--No. 1 ...;........ BARLEY--No. 2 POSK--Mess Toxjnx). WHEAT--Cash.... ConN--Cub OATS CiiOvm BBSD. ST. u>tn& WHEAT--NOT 8 Bed........ COBN--Mixed OfcT*--Cash. Rte .- BASUT Poax--Mess NEW YOWL CATTI* HOOD SHSEP WHJSAT--NO. 1 White COIIN--No. 2 OATS--White Poaa--New Mess DETROIT. CATTLE Hons SHKEP ....*.. WHEAT--NO. 1 White CORN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--NO. 2 White INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE....... Hoos SHEEP... LAMBS. BUFFALO. CATTLE;......*. •. WHEATS-NO* 1 White!!!.'!! '. Coras--No. S Yellow EAST LIBERTY, CATTLE--Prime.... Fairv. Ho* m 6.50 & «.00 # 4.00 m c.og & 4.7V & .«» JS0 •JShS .m m .is m .it m jtn & 2I76 0 3.25 #14.00 M .19 .17 18.26 .47 1M0 .7854 .47}# .85*6 .60* m .si @14.00 .27 & .27* 4.20 0 4.30 .60 .80 14.25 .85 .45 .86 @14.75 6.00 5.90 3.50 Worit of the JBenste and H©uee,«#'fc^ tfesentatives. Tut House passed the army appropriation bin otCUMtttfeinsb, after adopting an amassment •800,000 for a military peat near Chisago. Mr. Randall reported the sundry eMl MIL The total of tbe biU is tSB,- being CMP,897 less than the regular w, and •7,881,278 less than the regular and spselal estimates. The amount appropriat­ ed tar the sane nunsoeee tor the cunant teed year was •22,605,540. The apparent exeees at •1,206^S7 over the pies ant appropriation ts nearly accounted for in two feature* of the bill alone--for the Congressional library •614,200, and for ekpaasec at United States courts an Increase of •868,600. Among the increases in the bill over the meant appropriation are •275,000 for the Rock Island dun and *50.000 tor the Rock Island bridge AXONS the measures passed by the Senate on the 18th in st. were the bills for the representation of the several departments at the Columbus cen­ tennial. with an amendment appropriating •40,- 000; authorizing the sale of a portion of the Win, nebago reservation in Nebraska; appropriating •250,000 for a public building at Oakland, Cal.; and authorizing the construction of rail­ road bridges at Parkville, Mo., Alma, Wis., and Fort Smith, Ark. The Senate, in se­ cret session, ratified the lens-pending treaty providing for an adjustment of the Venezuelan claims. The'House pas Bed bill» appropriating •50,000 for a public building at Brownsville, Texas, and 830,000 for the completion of the pub­ lic building at Wichita, Kansae. Bills for the appropriation of *40,000 each fur the erection of public buildings at Faribault and lted Wing, Minn., were introduced in the House. The naval appropriation bill was reported from the House Naval Committee. Both houses agreed to the conference report on the Indian appropriation hill. THE House went into Committee on the Sun­ dry-Civil Appropriation Bill the 19th, and after debate a provision appropriating $500,000 for the library buildings was stricken out. The com* mlttee then rose, and after passing a bill author- icing the appointment of an additional Associ­ ate Justice for Dakota adjourned. MESSRS. MCSHANE and Laird precipitated a red-hot discussion in the House the 20th, which Is of more than local interest to the people of the West and Northwest. When that paragraph in the sundry civil appropriation bill which ap­ propriates 8100,000 for protecting the public lands was reached, Mr. McShane moved to amend it by reducing the amount to •50,000. He made a short but vigorous attack upon the special- agency branch of the general land office. In the broadest and bitterest terms Mr. Laird denounced not only the late Commissioner of tbe Genera! Land Office (Mr. Sparks) but the general policy of the office as it relates to special agents. His denunciation of Sparks for sus­ pending the homestead laws was extremely per­ sonal. Mr. Weaver of Iowa defended Sparks and his policy, and closed by saying: "There is not a land-grabber iu the country who will not indorse the remarks of the gentle, man from Nebraska." McShane's amendment was lost. In the Senate Mr. Farwell's bill di­ recting the President to prohibit the importa­ tion of the products of foreign states in certain cases was reported adversely from the Commit­ tee on Foreign Affairs. The House bill appro, priating 850,000 to complete the public building at Wichita, Kas., waB taken up and passed, with ah amendment- increasing the appropria- tion.to •luO.OOO. The Senate then too* up the pension bills on the calendar and passed all of them, ninety-two in number. THE House on the 21st voted to non-concur in the Senate amendments to the diplomatic and consular and District of Columbia appropriation bills, and ordered a conference on the last- named measure. The House then went into committee of the whole on tbe sundry civil bill. The only change made in the measure was the addition of an amendment offered by Mr. McShane (Neb.) abol­ ishing the Surveyor General's office at Lincoln, Neb., and turning the papers of the office over to the States of Nebraska and Iowa. A debate on the public land surveys followed, but without concluding the bill the committee rose and the Bones adjourned. & 6.50 & 6.00 & 5.25 .#6%@ .96* M %<& .56* .42 & .46 16.25 3)15.75 4.00 & 5.2S 4.75 0 6.50 S.S0 & 4.75 .»*<£ .94* .64 & .55 M & .88)$ How to Prolong Life. It is tersely said that "all fools are mad, though some are madder than others, "and, perhaps, among the maddest of them it would be safe to reckon those who, hav­ ing but one life to live, run through with it in vain lamentation over troubles which they cannot avoid, or, what is vainer, over those which they can, and which, some­ times, are so far in the future that they never come to bother them, To "take Time by the forelock," is a very profitable grip to hold on that slippery old fellow; but Trouble is not slippery, and we should Eractiee our haste and activity rather in eeping out of her way as long as possible --to build a wall of mirth, as it were, be­ tween her and us, over Much her clumsy feet would never venture to climb. Gravity is a grave thing. It may be ap­ propriate at certain times and in certain places, bat as an every-day dish it is tough and indigestible. A continual diet of India robber would, perhaps, be as favorable to the growth and flourish of the body and mind. Therefore, if we are wise as well as grave, we can show our wisdom in no stronger way than dropping our gravity and "playing the fool now and then." Even Socrates himself knew the danger of too much gravity, and fre­ quently took occasion to sink some of it ill the gay tide of merriment. "Mirth," says an old writer, "purgeth the blood, confirms health, cau-eth a fresh, pleasing and fine color, prorogues life, whets the wit, and maketh the body voung, lively and fit for any manner of employ­ ment." And if we need further proof of its life-giving properties we can find it in the Bible, spread forth in unequivocal and unmistakable words: "A merry heart is the life of the flesh," saith Proverds; and in Ecclesiastes we are told that "Gladness prolongs a man's days." In the plodding, matter-of-fact days of the present, it seems, we have too little time to think of much else than "business, serious business," and, when we come to think of it, it is a serious business to have our lives shortened with cares and labors; cares and labors that would be a great deal more palatable and far less death-dealing if seasoned with a little mirth and non­ sense. Let us reform this altogether, and profitably to heart Shakspeare's advice: - "Frame your mind for mirth and merriment Which bars a thousand harms." Chinese Superstitious. !A gftl who is partaking of the last meal she is to eat in her father's house previous to her marriage, sits at the table with her parents and brothers; but she must eat no more than half the bowl of rice set before her, else her departure will be followed by contin­ ual scarcity in the domicile she is leaving. A piece of bacon aud a parcel of sugar are hung on the back of a bride's •e^an chair as a sop to the demons who might molest her while on her journey. The "Three Baneful Ones" are fond of salt and spices, and the "White Tiger" likes sweets. If a bride breaks the heel of % shoe in going from her father's to her husband's house, it is ominous of un- happiness in her new relations. A bride may be brought home while- a coffin is in her husband's house, but not within one hundred days after a coffin is carried out. Domestic troubles are sure to come upon one who is mar­ ried within one hundred days after a funeral. ,r A bride, while putting on her wed­ ding garments, stands in a round, shal­ low basket. This conduces to her leading a placid, well rounded life in her future home. After her departure from her father's door her mother puts the basket over the mouth of the oven to stop the mouths of all who would make adverse comment on her daugh­ ter, and then sits down before the kitchen range, that her peace and leisure may be duplicated inher daugh­ ter's life. A bride must not, for four months after hft marriage, enter any house in which there has recently been a death ot a birth, for if she does so there will Burely be a quarrel between her and the groom. If a young mother goes to see a bride, the visitor is looked upon m tbe cause of any calamity that may follow.--Popular Science \0r Wfjlli wMiiitk* CMMna. ' % folfiio»j£li|m'W who you^^^^rpitvlias porn In dis oountry inaftlad of Bhina. How many of ^yon juipr about dot ahextUeman called CtttPiopher Columbus? All? Yhc^dil jliiHftgoddL I shall now tell you of his life* Vhen Christopher Columbus vhas a shmall pqy» nopody takes him to be shmart. He vhas no shmarter ash my Soy Shake. He vhas werry quiet, ometimes ho goes out bv an apple tree und Site down und doan shpeak to nopody for two hours. If some poy comes along vnd asks him to go fishing he doan' eaajR look oop. He vhas bur­ ied mit refaction, und his mudder called him SfM»x times before he comes to dinner. What vhas dot reflection, shildren ? Does he reflection on how he shall puy him a horse or a gun ? Yhas he reflection on how he shall run avhay und become some cowpoy und Injun- killer? Oh, ao! He vhas no sooch poy ash dot. ' Eafen at der early age of swelve years Chrisfemhor doan' believe dot Spain vhaa alX dis world. He beliefs he can go weat und find some new country und^people. He ctoan' say so, for maybe his fodder would lick him, und der school-master would call him a fool, but he keeps right on mit his thinking. Then some poy wants him to go after coons he doan' go, und if some games of base ball vhas around he nefer go to see her. All der time he vhas thinking about dot undiscovered country oijt West behind der ocean, but he doan' spheak of him to nopody. If he does he vhas called some fools und idits, und maybe he get a ride mit der patrol wagon. * vhell, dot poy grows oop to be a man, und nop<xly can tell if he vhas thinking of politics or religion. One day he goes py der King und Queen und says he like to set out und find America. He doan' haf no money nor ships, und he like dot King to foot all der bills. Sliiminy! but how dot King laughs all oafer him, and how dot Queen spheaks to Columbus if his mud­ der knows he vhas outdoors! Colum­ bus vhas so come oafer by confusion dot he goes right avhay und hides himself, und it vhas in der society news in der Sunday papers dot he vhas out of town. Vliell, time goes on und Columbus feels petter. He doan' gif oop yet. He vhas like der toothache. Der more he thinks der harder he aches. He peliefs in America, und at last he goes py some rich mans und asks him to shpeak mit der King some more. So it vhas brought about at last dot der King gifs his con­ sent und fits out three ships. He doan' pelief in Columbus, however, und he says to him: "If you find dot America it vhas all O. K. If you doan' find her I send you by der work house so long as you live. Now go avhay und write me some postal cards occasionally und let me know if you vhas in good health." Columbus vhas shaking in his boots, but he sails avhay und goes out of sight. In a few days somebody vhas awful scart und vhants to go back. Columbus buys him off mit feefty cents. Pooty soon some more sailors vhas scart, und a little later on eaferypody begins to holler "fire!" und "policeP No land vhas in sight any more, und der peoples belief dey should be drowned. Colum­ bus bribed und threatened und coaxed, und if a man vhiff 'too bad he puts a head on him. At last he must gif oop. He shtands all alone. He calls der people around him und says: "Doan' be BO fresh. I pelief we vhas almost to America. I can slimell some Chicago River, und we shall keep on tree days more. If we doan' come py him den ve shall go back home, und doan' you forget her?" Dot vhas brave in him, und great vhas his reward. In two days somepody cries out: " Land ho!" und pooty queek all dose ships vhas by America. "Colum­ bus goes ashore und sees some Injuns und says he likes to be friends, und vhen a tousand vhas come around him he says: "Fellow-citizens, it vhas no use. You vhas discovered, und I like you to. make der best of her. Hooray for UB! If you like to behave yourselves, I gif you some looking-glasses. If you like to fight, I vhill clean you out in two min­ utes by some clocks! Let me know at your earliest convenience how your feelings xhas." Vhell, dose Injuns see dot he can't be bluffed, und so dey make friends mit him. He loads up mit wood und slitones und such tings, hires some Injuns to go home mit him und sails avhay for Spain. It was like some Fourth of Shuly vhen he comes pack. Some cannon shoots off, drums beat, flags fly und eaferypody yells out: "Hooray! I told you so!" Columbus goes py der King und Queen und he makes a speech und shows all dot he pringt home, und der King shteps down und feels of his head und says: "You vhas a hustler from Hustletown, und if I doan' put you in der legislature und make some of those old moss-backs look seek den I vhas no shentlemans!" Und der Queen shteps down und shmiles on him und says: "Behold a great man! Nopody else in all dis world vhas knee-high to a grass-hopper. Come und haf some din­ ner mit us!" Und dot vhas how we vhas discovered, shildren, und dot vhas all I haf to tell you.--Detroit Free Press. How Perfumes Are Made. The manufacture of floral extracts and essences is not difficult, although, of course, a practical knowledge of the business is indispensable. The per- fuinee of flowers exist in the form of volatile essential oils which areextracted by two principal methods. The first is by distilling the blossoms in water. The apparatus is simple, •mall copper still holding a few gallons and furnished with a receiver to be im­ mersed in cold water to condense the steam or vapor which contains the oil, being all that is required. Such a still may be ordered through a reliable drug­ gist or made by a local coppersmith at a probable cost of $50 to $100, depend­ ing on size. The extract thus obtained wul have to be redistilled several times to concentrate it, and care must be taken that the degree of heat used shall be only sufficient to accomplish the dis­ tillation, as any excess of temperature would damage the delicate odors. There are flowers, such as the jessa­ mine, tuberose, and violet, which will not yield their perfumes to the distiller. They must be procured by enfleurage, which is the second principal process. It consists in soaking the flowers in pure fats heated to the temperature of boil­ ing water, in close vessels. Refined lard or pure cotton seed oil will serve. After th? fats shall have acquired by absorption the fragrance of the flowers, the pomade or ointment is treated with vfeflwol, whiph extracts the perftuseand Act ducted Withgree* CMelfid ldcety, there are many important details which cannot be given in a brief paper like this. Without doubt there is no if*?* fa­ vored region thin is to be found in Louisiana for the culture of flowers on ft large scale for the useof the perfttmer. Persons undertaking the business would do well to oonftne tneir operations ex­ clusively to the production of the com­ mercial oils, leaving to skilled perfumers the task of compounding them. It is claimed that odors constitute a gamut and possess facilities for harmonious or discordant combinations, as is the case with musical sounds, and only those persons acquainted with the dia­ tonic scale of odors should attempt to combine them.--New Orleans Pica­ yune. Public Patronage at Washington. "Ah," said the Public Printer at Washington, "let me tell you a little story. About a year ago a stylish and intelligent lady came to the office. She was the officer of a well-known woman's association of the city of Washington, and we shall call her Mrs. Smith. She came, she said, on a benevolent errand. She knew a starving woman, whose father was killed in the war, and whose husband had perished at sea. She had four children, and could not obtain washing enough to support them. If I could give the poor creature the towels of the department to wash, it would Gave them from the poor house. My visitor wept over the situation, and begged me to yield this boon. The wasnidg of towels was being satisfactorily done by poor women, but this one's strait was apparently more desperate, and I agreed to give the poor woman the towels. She came and got them the next day." Mr. Benedict stopped as if the story were finished. Nobly done!" exclaimed the lady who had evoked the narrative. There was no poor woman," ex­ plained the Public Printer, with a cheer­ ful smile. "Or, rather, Mrs. Smith was the 'poor woman' who wanted the money, and got it. We paid for the washing at the end of every week. Mrs. Smith got the washing done at a laun­ dry down on the avenue, and put the proprietor off month after month on the pretence of a lapsed appropriation and a deficiency bill, and at last accounts she had never paid his bill at all, but owed him about $300. Moreover, we paid her three cents apiece for washing the towels, and are now paying one cent. "Here's another: Last fall a lady named Mrs. Gregg called, she said, at the instance of the Congressional dele- fation from Louisiana, who wanted Miss !va Summer, of New Orleans, ap­ pointed to some place in my office. She was an orphan, poor and friendless, and must be taken care of by somebody. "The lady persisted, pleaded, and ap­ pealed to every humane sentiment. At last I yielded so far as to promise that as Louisiana had not bothered much, if she would go and get the Louisiana delegation to ask for the appointment, I would discharge some woman that I' thought could perhapslive, and make it. "In three days she came back with a paper urgently asking me to appoint the Louisiana lady, and it was signed by the Senators and all the Representatives. I filled out the appointment for Eva Sum­ mers. Well* in about a month an acquaint­ ance came to my desk and asked, 'Did you appoint Eva Summers, of Louisiana, to office here?' 'Yes/ I said, 'at the re­ quest of the whole delegation.' He took me quietly by the arm, led me to the window, and again asked, 'Do you see a sign over that coal yard yonder ?' 'Yes,' I answered, 'Michael Summers.' He merely added, 'Eva is his daughter. The female that called on you is a bro­ ker, and pocketed $50 for the job.' I sat right down in a meek frame of mind and wrote out Eva's dismissal. I hare never heard of her since." Jumped a Freight Trafau Among half a dozen commercial drummers who occupied seats in a Cen­ tral Hudson smoker recently relating their accustomed yarns for their own edification was one who made himself conspicuous by his silence. He set in a thoughtful mood with Ins smoking cap drawn partly down over Ids eyes, and with a large sample case in front of him he did not look like a deceiver. The conversation had turned on their hairbreadth escapes from railway ac­ cidents, and while each went the pre­ vious one a little better this modest one did not wonder at any of the stories or essay to question them. But his turn came and he had his revenge. "Speaking of hard riding," said he, as a hardware drummer had finished a blood-curdling recital of a lightning side on a New England road, "the fast­ est traveling I ever did was on a single-, track road in Kansas. We had just rounded a curve when the con­ ductor entered the car hurriedly and cried: 'Shut your eyes and hang on to the seat.' We all did as we were bid. A moment later and we were experienc­ ing an awful sensation. The car seemed to shudder, the windows to creak, and then all was over. A moment afterward the conductor entered and gave the or­ der : 'Open your eyes and let go the seats.' Everything looked natural, but the queer proceedings had aroused my curiosity, and I was led to ask the con­ ductor what had taken place. " 'Not much,' said he. 'This is a sin­ gle tracked road and we just jumped a freight.'"--Rochester Democrat. A Social Autocrat. Two ladies who live neighbors on Trumbull avenue have never called on each other because, as they both moved there at the same time, they could never decide which one was to make the first call. For the same reason they have never spoken to each other, but have waited to be formerly introduced. A few days ago there arcle a slight disturbance be­ tween the children of the two families, and the least ceremonious of the two ladies took this occasion to step over to her neighbor's veranda and offer an olive branch of peace. "I am sorry that my little girl should have annoyed yours. She acknowledges that she was in the wrong. I will see that it does hot happen again The other lady stared icily through her gold eye-glasses, and, turning to the nurse girl at her aide, inquired in her most supercilious tones: "Is she speaking to me?" The girl repeated what had been said to her mistress. "Tell her I accept the apology," said that lady haughtily, and, turning, die withdrew to the house. Could royalty have been more arro* gu^t?--Detroit Freg Press. A 8EAOCLL was shot recently in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. A iwrifcerV tlui clotfi SoseW for * while trated his aMettUan gentleman opposite, with linii' iiM>«nli.» server eooil tave noted th«th* selected only the softest articles <m the bill of fare. "That man has a bad fitting set of teeth, and Tllget them," aaid the little man. When the i hlsilj glMHiiiiisii left the table the litUe one fffmffftA. and in a few moments was in oonvettopafe with him, and, as it afteiwaid ̂ tiurip&red, had engaged to buy his false teeth as so<» fcahe had obtained a new set This little man picks up a great mstqr sets of false teeth in the course of a year. Ttfost persons that have a set be­ fore they reach 30 years of age are obliged to buy two more sets, at least, be­ fore they reach 60 years, as the mouth changes so that the teeth that fit well and serve the wearer well at first after a while do not fit and cause the wearer a great deal of discomfort. The man that makes a living in this line has ac- SHired a great knack for discovering ill tting teeth, and he scarcely ever fails to secure a bargain, for notwithstanding false teeth are the only immortal ma­ terial about our bodies, inasmuch as they are capable of resisting 4,000 de­ grees of heat (Fahrenheit,) few people know that they are worth anything second hand, and so the little man gets them at his own figure. He told the writer that many sets of false teeth are found. Owners are more careless of them than is supposed, and instances are more frequent than would be imagined in which they have been left in hotel bedrooms. They have been found in railroad cars, and even in horse cars, and quite frequently turn up in cabs. As the cabbies and railroad em­ ployes cannot wear other people's teeth they hunt up the buyer, and he gets the sets for a few shillings. The scaven­ gers sometimes rake up a set in an ash barrel and sets are sometimes picked up in the streets. One set was found in a magpie's nest in Pennslyvania, and an­ other was picked out of a woman's throat by a surgeon. The patient would never wear them again, and they were sold for a song. The little man picks up a nice living by his purchases, added to it now and then by buying a second* hand wig OT two.--New York Press. Three Remarkable Statues. The colossal statue of Frederick the Great at Berlin is one of the most mag­ nificent monuments of Europe, or, in­ deed, of the whole world. It is of bronze, and stands on a pedestal oi granite. The pedestal is twenty-five feet high, and above this the statue, showing the great Emperor on horse­ back, is seventeen feet in height. It is perfect in all proportions, and abso­ lutely true to life. Around the sides of fthe granite pedestal are bronze groups, life size, of all the leading Generals ivnd statesmen of tbe Seven Years' War, amounting in all to thirty-one persons. At each oorner, above the groups, are ilgures of Justice, Prudence, Forti­ tude, and Temperance; between these >xe bas-reliefs representing different ]<eriods in the life of Frederick; the riuse teaching him history; Mercury giving him asword; walking in the gar­ dens of his palace, surrounded by, his favorite companions, greyhounds, play- iftg on his flute; in the weiter's nut,' dra wing «he plan of battle after his de­ feat at Rollin. On the front tablet is inscribed, "To Frederick the Great, Frederick William III., 1840. Com­ pleted bv Frederick William IV., 1851." The Well-known statue of Peter the Great stands at the comer of the Ad­ miralty Square, St. Petersburg. By it the monarch is represented as mounting a precipice. It is said that the artist who executed this fine work took his design from seeing an officer, mounted on a wild Arabian steed, ride to the top of a cliff and halting there causes his horse to rear and paw the air with his fore feet. In this statue the Emperor's head is uncovered and crowned with laurel. The right hand is stretched out as in the act of giving benediction to his people, while the left holds the reins. The design is masterly, and the attitude spirited. This statue is also of bronze. There are three statues of some note in Dresden. In the center of the Zuringer, or palace yard, is one of Frederick Augustus II., and one of the Elector Maurice opposite the Ar­ senal. But the one mentioned is prob­ ably the bronze equestrian statue of Frederick Augustus II., known as Au­ gustus the Strong, which stands near the end of the New Bridge. This is spoken of as very fine, and as well showing the magnificent physical form that gave the Elector his favorite sur­ name.--Inter-Ocean Ammoiiiated Bread. Ammoniated baking powders--that is, baking powders in which carbonate of ammonia is used as an ingredient, and which exhale an odor of ammonia when heated--are classed by many eminent physicians and sanitarians as superior to all others. Prof. Hassell, of London, who is recognized as the highest author­ ity on the subject of food hygiene, com­ mends in the strongest terms the use of carbonate of ammonia as a leavening agent, stating its great advantage to be in its perfect volatility, Which permits it to be, by the heat of baking, entirely thrown into leavening gas whereby the bread is raised. The experiment with heat would seem to indicate the su­ perior, not the inferior, quality of such baking powder. The little heat that is imparted to it when held over a gas jet, lamp, or stove, suffices to resolve the carbonate of ammonia into leavening gaB and throw it off. The first heat of baking, therefore, will effectually de­ velop all the gas, thoroughly leaven the loaf, and dissipate tl^ f^rmodlioing ingredients of a, powde ̂ of fl^is kipd; and this is the highest test of a per­ fect baking powder. Where other alka­ lies alone are used they are not infre­ quently retained, unresolved, through the whole process of baking, and remain an unwholesome ingredient in the finished bread. The carbonate of am­ monia cannot be used as a substitute for cream of tartar.--New Weekly Tribune. 'i Why Johnny Was Late. A crabbed old bachelor who teaches school not far from Austin was very in­ dignant at little Johnny Flapjack--the only son of Mrs. Flapjack, and was a widow--for coming late. "I couldn't help being late," sobbed Johnny. 1 "Why not?" "Because ma has done been siid got married yesterday, and I hail to wait for my breakfast." "Got mamed, has she? Anything to make you late at school. What won't [she do next, I wonder?"--Texas Sift- ,4'-^ fill :"->S --While plowing com a young mailt MtoedHarnwr, who lived near Sand Prafc- lie, .Hit Jilt from Oakland, was ranstnu^ and iie& instantly. The heat there h*t v been intense, ranging from 96 to 109 d«~ graes in the shade. --D. W. Ice, aged 19, eldest son of J* ". K. lot, of Gifford, was drowned whil# , , s'% bathing in Middlefork Creek, near Ped- ' >| field. • -I Robert L. McKinlay, of Paris, has betife' chosen by the Democrats of the 15th Coo» gressional District as a candidate for Con-- -'S. ̂ J gross, and George F. Bidle, of Coles, as4| •" candidate for membership in the 8tat» ^ Board ot Equalization. --Dr. Crosby, of Lincoln, was thrown from a buggy and hurt. Two days snbr ,, £- sequenily, while visiting his betrothed, ha>~_, . was seised with lockjaw, and died withi*. . v $ a few hours. " >4 ' 1 --The seventeenth annual commence- 'sf.-Trli ment of the University of the State, hel|t! at Urbana, was a noteworthy one, more sj|' than any of the preceding twenty years. The number of students in attendance h^jp never been very large, but is steadily io> creasing, and bids fair to equal the aW tendance of similar institutions in oth# States. The total a timber matriculated^ as students since its opening is 2,226. Thar number graduated from the several col* legos* including the class of 1888, is 510. The past year there was a total attendano^. Of 47?. Of this number 405 were gentle*'-,, men and 72 ladies. This number was di* vided into the following classes: Agrfe* culture, 23; mechanical engineering, civil ittgineering, 53; mining engineering ,.j| 4; architecture, 46; chemistry, 15; natural , history, 46; art and design, 14; English. and modern languages, 85; ancient Ian* guagss, 8; not specified, 30. According tfe classes there are resident graduates, 6$ seniors, 41; juniors, 61; sophomores, 70^ ' f r e s h m e n , 8 9 ; p r e p a r a t o r y s t u d e n t s , 1 0 3 ; . , ^" J special, 28. --The fourteenth annual convention ofc ri \ 1 the Illinois State Sportsmen's Association! , . ^ was held at the Palmer House, in Chicago, t '1 Twenty-*seven clubs in fifteen cities an&' v 't towns were represented by sixty-five dele* < gates. A motion to pay $ 100 to Gam^ * Warden J. C. Pipins was referred to th^ 'V/"^ij Board of Directors. Dr. Charles Henry,. ' | of the Audubon Gun Club of Jacksonville^. > . < 4 moved to amend Rule 6 of the trap-shoot*- . '• v.y lag rules so that it shall read: "The gu|k ' ' /j shall not be carried to the shoulder untif ' after the shooter calls pull," instead of The gun shall not be carried to the shou^fy - der until the bird takes wing." The amenc^' ment was carried to go into effect in thirtffr days. Chicago was selected as the place ftp, •. -3 the next tournament. The following office# were re-elected: President, Wolf red Hv j Low, Cumberland Gun Club, Chicago^ --J Vice Presidents, H. F. Orvis, Chicagd^* * and Edward J, Brown, Quincy; Secretaip. * •- f and Treasurer, William L. Shepar^'. Cumberland Gun Club, Chicago. ThSfc ..j law and executive committees will be ai pointed hereafter by the President. --James Wilson, of Philo, died, seventy. , "' i --J. Byrbett, of Elkhart, fell from a load1. of hay and was instantly killed. » i --James S. Duke was arrested at Chip4 cago and taken to Elgin for embezzling* several hundred dollars from his em^? ployer, Charles Oliver, of Beloit, Wis. --Jeremiah Davis, an old citizen Piatt County, died very suddenly from |S| '. stroke of apoplexy. He was a prominent member of the Baptist Church of Monti?- , cello. --Elder John Tyler, of Decatur, a widely: , ; known Christian Church minister, fatally injured at his farm five miles east > . of Decatur. He was preparing to go home, when his horse became unmanageable and " kicked him on the left temple, was 8i years old. --John Mosuch, of Chicago, 40 yea#^^|-' old, employed at the rolling-mills in. " V Joliet, in trying to jump on a Santa F» freight train to ride to the city, fell under, ^ • the wheels and was killed. t > --Mrs. Seilhammer and a young gilt named Fisher got into a fight near Isabel, Edgar County. In the melee the Fisher. girl hit Mrs. Seilhammer on the head with a skillet, fracturing her skull. The womai.-1 will die. v, --The Boyd-Williams murder case ha|> . been concluded in the Macon Connty Cii* :' -': ; cuit Court, the jury finding Boyd guilty of manslaughter and fixing the penalty ^ five years in the penitentiary. Last No­ vember Boyd quarreled with a man nameft Goolsby, and Williams led him away tp>' • prevent further trouble. Becoming an**- . gered at the interference of William^: Boyd plunged a knife into his stomacl from the effecte of which Williams the next morning. iftb; --After thirteen days of prohibition,. heretofore almost unprecedented state ojS - affairs in Aurora, the high and low license Aldermen compromised on a $625 license?, and the license ordinance has gone intfe effect. >zy,yrA --A jury in the McDonough County?..,*? • Court convicted John Sanders, aged TSj years, of receiving a bribe for voting. A . Macomb policeman testified to paying him 12 for voting the Bepublican ticket , Several cases of a similar nature are pend- ^ (ng there. --The victims «f 'the Dan Shelby eiis.^ . - * BUS, at 0&eH, are aU doing well, and nlf^ serious results are entertained. Thj^ management, before leaving, paid tho«n> most seriously hurt sums ranging fro% V $25 to $50 each. * - The Fox Itiver Association of TTni- , . versalist Churches have closed their ses^f j;?- sion at Elgin. Resolutions favoring thjpf • ip abolition of the liquor traffic were passed, \ and a memorial service in honor of Rev. | W. S. Balch was held. The old officer* were re-elected. --The family of Amos Sheppard,^1- East St. Louis, have been poisoned with . Paris green, which 'they placed on thV%: : leaves of growing potatoes tokill insects,. ' Mrs. Sheppard will not recover. Mr. *1 Sheppard, his wife, and daughter, ageuft , 13, partook of their dinner, consisting ot roast beef, potatoes, and other vegetablef^ft? After the meal each was attacked witlk * violent symptoms of poisoning? Dr. Frasier, of St. Louis, was summoned ani|^^ he pronounced it a case of Paris- greejfc- ' poisoning. All of the members of warn . w ' j rt - ^ i : ---